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“But if objects for gratitude and admiration are our desire, do they not present themselves every hour to our eyes?”

Ifs Eye Desire Hours Objects Gratitude Independence Admiration

Book:The Theological Works of Thomas Paine

Source: The Theological Works of Thomas Paine

“If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their objects, make some compensation, and render them the admiration of mankind.”

Ifs Common Mankind Objects Common Sense Admiration Compensation Novelty Refined Exalted Refinement Rarity

Book:An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

Source: An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

“Why is it, I wonder, that anyone who displays superior athletic ability is an object of admiration to his classmates, while one who displays superior mental ability is an object of hatred?”

Ability Wonder Objects Hatred Superiors Admiration Display Athletic Classmates Athletic Ability

Book:I, Asimov: A Memoir

Source: I, Asimov: A Memoir

“Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives no pleasure to the objects of it. Even fame is the offspring of envy.”

Giving Pleasure Mankind Objects Ready Fame Envy Latter Admiration Offspring

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great objects and terrible; the latter on small ones and pleasing; we submit to what we admire, but we love what submits to us: in one case we are forced, in the other, we are flattered, into compliance.”

Causes Differences Cases Objects Terrible And Love Wide Admire Former Latter Admiration Submit Sublime Flattered Compliance

Book:A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

Source: A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

“The science of the church is neglected for the study of geometry, and they lose sight of Heaven while they are employed in measuring the earth. Euclid is perpetually in their hands. Aristotle and Theophrastus are the objects of their admiration; and they express an uncommon reverence for the works of Galen. Their errors are derived from the abuse of the arts and sciences of the infidels, and they corrupt the simplicity of the gospel by the refinements of human reason.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)

“That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that the contempt, of which vice and folly are the only proper objects, is most often unjustly bestowed upon poverty and weakness, has been the complaint of moralists in all ages.”

Has Beens Age Wealth Poverty Virtue Objects Greatness Respect Ethics Weakness Vices Dues Folly Self Respect Admiration Contempt Complaints Moralist

Book:Essays On, I. Moral Sentiments: II. Astronomical Inquiries; III. Formation of Languages; IV. History of Ancient Physics; V. Ancient Logic and Metaphysicis; VI. The Imitative Arts; VII. Music, Dancing, Poetry; VIII. The External Senses; IX. English and Italian Verses

Source: Essays On, I. Moral Sentiments: II. Astronomical Inquiries; III. Formation of Languages; IV. History of Ancient Physics; V. Ancient Logic and Metaphysicis; VI. The Imitative Arts; VII. Music, Dancing, Poetry; VIII. The External Senses; IX. English and Italian Verses

“Let our object be - our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. And by the blessing of God, may that country itself become a vast and splendid monument - not of oppression and terror, but of wisdom, of Peace, and of Liberty, upon which the world may gaze with admiration forever.”

World May Country Whole Liberty Forever Objects Blessing Terror Oppression Our Country Admiration Splendid Monument

Book:An Address Delivered at the Completion of the Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843

Source: An Address Delivered at the Completion of the Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843